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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-06

Mrs Martha J. Tunstall, President Of In
dian Territory W. c. T. u, and herself
Cherokee, has recently organized fifteen local
writes, "of bath white and red.n
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-06

THE Minister of Spain in Washington has
Informed the Secretary Of State that foreign
ers visiting Cuba who remain beyond one
month must provide themselves with pass
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-06
RELIGIOUS READING.
Ihou9h He slay Me, Yet viii I
Trust in Him,

Though He slay Me, Yet WIN
Trust in Him.
OFT by trials overborna
Baff1ed where strove to do,
Not tie way I would have gone.
Thou dear Lord, hast led mo through;
Yet, believing, can say, e.
1t was best-this very way.
And tomorrow can I doubt
What Thou orderest will be bestl
darkness may be round about
Faith may meet its sorest test;
But the past must lend ray
Or assurance for this day.
Not In vain Thy grace ha. wrought
Secretly, against my will,
Bringing me to think this thought, :
And to trust thy mercy still;
Trusting, as surely may, /
Just because Of yesterday.
Nay, forgive me! poor indeed
Is the faith whose backward gaze
6eeks for signs that 1t may plead
in behalf of coming days.
strengthening timid hope to say,
HE was gracious yesterday"
All, how little do we know
OF thy mercy's magnitude!
How our faith should burn and glow
W, W,th the thought that Thou art goodi
And in alteration say,
Il will trust Him, though he slay."
-.. .:c
Once thou didst bestow Sign
That forever should suffice;
Showing forth the Love Divine
In that one supreme device.
Though all seshould pass away,
Faith shall find that sigh its stay.
Come; then, darkness, suffering, loss;
Come temptation, SORROW, death;
By that sign the holy Cross,
Faith forever conquersth; 49,
And foretasting Life can say,
Il will trust Him though He slay."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-06

The W. C. T. T. Of Massachusetts, sent an
earnest personal letter to each member of the
House OF Representatives, urging his presence,
attention and vote in favor Of the Consti-
tutional Prohibitory Amendment, at the
special session called for the consideration Of
that measure
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-06

Labor il sweeter. for Thou hast toiled,
And care is light, for Thou hast cared;
Let not our works with self be soiled,
Nor in unsimple ways ensnarad.
Through life's long day and deaths dark
night,
o gentle Jesus! be our light.
IF w Fal ar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-06

and said: Mr.. Talmage, lend me five dol; ],
lars.n My brother said; .Who are you"
The boy replied: 81 am NOBODY. Lend me
five dollars" "What do you want to do with
Eve dollarsl" "Well,n the boy replied, my
mother is sick and poor, and want to go into
the newspaper business, and shall get gaeSe nome
gave him the five dollars, Of course, never e1-
pecting to see it again; but he said: when will
You paw it?n The boy said 81 will pay it in
six months. SIR" Time went by, and one day
lad came into my brothers office, and said:
tThere's your five dollars" What do you
bosPr s yS You dSnss nqae sRas so my
came in here six months ago and wanted to bor-
row five dollars to 90 into the newspaper
businessW 20, yes, / remember; are you the
ladm Eyes" he replied, II have got along
nicely. have got nice home for my mother
(she IS sick yeti, and am as well clothed as
you are, and there's your i've dollars. Ias :, WAS
fifty such boys as have sometimes seen NOV
ing in elegant circles, never put to any use
for God or raan. Worth saving! 60 farther
than that, and tell you they are not
only worth saving, but they are being saved.
One of theso lads picked up from our streets,
and sent West by a benevolent society, wrote
East, saving: Il am getting along first rate
I am on probation in the Methodist Church.
shall be entered as a member the first of
next month 1 now teach Sunday-school
class of eleven boys. I get along first rate
with it. This is splendid country to make a
living in. If the boys running around the
street witl a blacking box on their
shoulder, or q bundle of papers under their
arms. only knew what high old times we boys
have w out here, they wouldn't hesitate about
coming West but come the first chance they
get" So scme by one humane and Chris
tian visitation, and some by another, are be-
ing rescued. In one reform school through
which two thousand of the little ones passed,
one thousand nine hundred and ninety
Eve turned out we'll. In other
words, only five Of the Two thousand
turned out badly. There are thousands
of them who, through Christian societies;
have been ansplanted to beautiful homes all
over this land, and there are many who,
throueh the rich grace Of our Lord Jesus
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
Wisdom From Experience.

The more experience have in farm
ing. writes Meg, of Mississippi. the
palmer 1 see the folly of destroying
different things without thinking
whether they would ever be of any
possible use to the farm. To be a sue
cessful farmer you should utilize every
thing that can be made into something
of value. Every old horse or COW that
dies should be hauled out to some bald
spot on ridge that is not in cultiva-
ton, and as soon as the bones have
lost their offensive odor they should
be hauled in and burned and the
ashes put in your compost heap.
Every cow on the plantation should
be penned regularly every night
except Saturday night, and the
manure taken up the next morning.
Every bushel of ashos should be saved.
Every negro on your place should be
provided with several barrels and be
paid ten or fifteen cents barrel to
save the ashes for you. All your cot
ton seed should be put back on your
land, and there are great many other
things to be done in the way of saving
for the compost heap. and stopping
gullies, ETC., that would require great
deal too much space to tell you about.
but which you can see for yourself if
you would just stop and consider. I
think that indifference and not laz:-
ness is the cause of so many failures
among our Southern farmers.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
HOW HE KNEW HIM.
Abraham LincOln's Story About Henri
Ward Beecher.


Ward Beecher.
Ben: Perley Poore is authority for the
statement that Abraham Lincoln once
told good story about Henry Ward
Beecher, who, dressed in very common
clothes, was studying human nature as
exhibited in the highways and byways Of
New York. In the course of his philo-
sophie peregrinations, he went into q
mock auction shop. He stood awhile on
entering, and reflected, doubtless. how
any one could be so lost to all sense or
truth and honesty as the auctioneer in
question, endeav bring to palm off his
worthless trash to the inexperienced in
city ways as good and valuable, and
finally the auctioneer called out: "Mr.
Beecher, why don't you bid?" He was
greatly astonished, as can be
imagined, at finding himself known
in this place, and, as he had supposed
in his purposely careless dress. He imme-
diately left, and started for the residence
of one Of the members of the church in the
ueighborhood, and requested him, as an
act of kindness, to 60 down and inquire of
that person who had sold himself to Sa-
tan for the love of gain how it was that he
knew him in his disguise, The neighbor
kindly consented, and on entering the
"Peter Funk" shop he addressed the
auctoneer:
''How is it that you know Henry Ward
Beecher so well as to be able to recognize
him in his disguised"
How do know him? Why, l have been
a prominent member of his congregation
for the last five years, and lease the fifth
pew from the 'front.'"
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15

ton went ON, and it became apparent
that innocent lives had been sacrificed.
and the real depred ators appeared in
the form of yellow-jackets. They
were active and voracious, and could
and did, In plain view, pass from
bunch to bunch, and with their sharp
proboscides puncture and suck the
juice until surfeited, when they would
fly off in sluggish manner. A few
of the common gray wasps would fol-
low and lap up the exuded sweets,
and it became clear that the innocent
bees had only been doing the same
thing. The vineyard was the victim
of an unsupported enemy, and it was
serious question how his ravages
could be checked. Knowing some
thing of the habits of this in
sect in respect to burrowing into
the ground for their nests, we
called up an intelligent and observing
negro man and put him on the watch.
Following out the idea suggested by a
recent reading of Cooper's Oak Open
ings, in which was described the plan
bee-hunters use for finding bee-t trees,
this man was enabled to trace the yell
low-jackets, by the direction of their
flight, to their nests, several of which
were found within a few hundred
yards. The destruction of these in
sects was accomplished somewhat
after the plan pursued with the bees.
After nightfall large armful of dry
straw was deposited over the nest, and
then by violent knocking on the
ground the yellow-iackets would rush
up from their burrow, and whilst en-
tangled in the straw the torch was APP
piled and the whole colony burnt up.
After this our vineyard remained un-
disturbed foryears. Farm and Fire
| side.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
Bees and Fruit.

The editor of the Southern Planter
relates the following experience with a
vineyard which he had planted with
great care some years previously:
Our vineyard commenced bearing
well the third year, and was in fine
thrift the fourth year. when it had a
serious setback by the destruction of
the grapes as they ripened, by bees.
as we supposed. There were a few
hives about one hundred yards off,
and it appeared that every bee in them
was puncturing and sucking the juice
of thes fruit. 1t was hastily deter
mined that the bees must be sacrificed
for the protection of the vineyard, and
accordingly loads of dry wheat straw
were brought and dumped near the
hives After night, when the bees
were resting quietly. the hives were
gently taken from the stands. piled to-
gether, the straw piled over them, and
the torch applied. so that in a half
hour ell were consumed. This seemed
TO be cruel act but jusifisble under
the principle of eI necessitats rel
Our surprise was gleat when the
next dsy-s bright aud clear oue-not
Doe was to be seen, but the dsstruc-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
A Ten-Tbous,nu Dollar Watch,

The death of Mr. Alfred Denison re.
moves a well-known figure from London
society. lie was a younger brother of the
celebrated George Anthony Denison,
Archdeacon of Taunton, and of Mr.. Speak
er Denison, afterward Viscount Oossington.
Lady OossiDgton presented her brother-in-
law with ten thousand dollars for certain
services. This money Mr.. Denison invest
ed in a sumptuous watch. A very musical
repeater of the best workmanship was in
closed in a gold case literally studded
with jewels, and each jewel picked
stone. The watch chain had succession
OF black pearls, and the signet was scar.
ab@us. The worst of this costly within
was that the owner scarcely dared wear
the watch for fear OF being robbed in the
street, and could not leave it at home for
fear of burglary.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
CHIEF OF STRANGERS.
A Hideous Old Thug Tries His Terrible
Arts on n Tourist.

Arts on Tourist.
Many of the great criminals whom /
have seen bore in their faces terrible
warning of what they were; but with the
Thugs of Jahapur it is not so. These hui
man vampires who now gather round me,
says correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press, every one of whom has taken more
lives than any public executioner in
Europe, are to the outward eye set of
quiet, slouching, meager old men, who
might be gang of beggars, a group of
harmless village folk, party of super.
animated native workmcu, or any thing
on earth but what they really are.
THAT'S the Chief" whispers my guide,
pointing to small, lean, gray beard, with
white turban, who is sitting before the
nearest hut, rocking child on his knee,
and stroking it's thin, little, brown face
with the hand that has shed the blood of
his fellow men like water.
"Ask him." rejoin /, show many muir.
ders he has committed"
A momentary CLEAN of cunning wrinkles
In his sunken eyes. The old tiger is evil
IDENTIFY suspicious, and stands on his
guard.
III can not tell" he answers, with an in
difference which, under such circum-
stances, has in it something indescribably
CHASTITY. 81 didn't keep count of them be-
yond hundred"
Snow, before we CO." says to our con-
ductor, 81 mean to see for myself how the
strangling was done. Oblige me by telling
this man to put his moose around my
wrist, for l don't care to trust him with
my throat"
The savage eagerness with which the
withered old skeleton obeys the call-as il
filled with fresh life by even the make-be.
lieve show of murder-is fearful to see.
Knotting a small coin into the corner of
his handkerchief to give him a
sure hold, he slips the moose
round my arm and then, bringing his
knuckles together with sudden twist
gives my wrist squeeze and almost makes
the bone crack.
The awful change that passes over his
face at this moment battles all de.
scripton. His dull, flimsy eyes seem tc
blaze with hell-ire, his sharp, white teet b
are laid bare in wolish grin, his shriv.
eled, corpse-like features culver with a
ferocious joy so fiendish that an actual
demon starting up before me could scarce
ly be more appalling. The thought of that
face bending over some helpless man in
the gloomy depths of the forest, just as
the fatal moose frightened, is altogether too
much for my nerves, aud it is with long
breath of relief that find myself outside
the fatal Enclosure once more.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
CHARMING ACTRESSES.
The Lily Gives Place to the Rose--Stage
Trials and TriumDhs.

Trials and Triumphs.
There may have been a time, perhaps,
when the pallid lily was the type Of female
beauty. 1t is not so to-day.
On the stage the most charming actresses
are women of robust health.
Mrs. Langtry is the best matinee attrac-
ton on the stage, so managers say, be-
cause she is attractive to women as well as
to men. She is a famous walker and an
accomplished athlete.
Two generations have ragged over the
beauty of Rose Coghlan. She is not pretty,
but she has the vigor of rude health.
Fanny Davenport was always fascinating,
and is stilla great favorite. AS Lady Gag
SPEAKER she would catch her Dolly in q
rapturous embrace and swing him three
times around her, his feet never touching
the floor.
Great surprise is often expressed that
actresses are able to preserve their health
and beauty, in view of the terrible strain of
their exacting duties upon physical and
mental force.
Jennie Kimball, the mother of charming
"Little Corinne," who has delighted lovers
of comic opera for many years, says, under
date of May 2Sth, 1887: II was exhausted
with my severe work and the doctors told
me to give up the stage. Warmers safe
cure restored me. / have never had better
health in my life, and whenever bad feeling
returns Immediately resort to that rem
edy."
Grace Hawthorne, the American actress,
now playing Theodore with great success in
London, Eng, In a recent interview said !:
81 know how to remain in perfect health,
Notwithstanding the nervous strain have
to nightly endure while playing. l use
Warmers safe cure, and it controls life and
health as nothing else will"
The really great actresses in emotional
parts are those who utterly abandon their
own personality in the assumption of the
character portrayed. The strain they I'M
dergo is one that few, outside OF the profes-
sion, can understand.
Maude Granger was obliged to abandon
the stage temporarily by reason of it. She
says: "The suffering | then endured, and the
terrible condition was in, can only be ap-
preciated by those women who have under
| gone the same experience. 1t was while
still suffering that l learned of Warner S
safe cure and began its use. have taken
it faithfully, and am happy to state that
am now completely restored to health and
my usual vigor."
Many break down under the strain and,
like Sara Jewett totally give out. Physi-
clans prescribe opiates which, perhaps,
give temporary reliefonly to make the final
collapse more certain and complete Others
are more fortunate and find in that great
remedy an influence which controls life
and health and, they are thus enabled to
succeed in their highest ambitions.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
HERE AND THERE.

We are told that shipping rose
buds and Cape jessamine grown in the
open air from Crystal Springs, Miss,
to Northern cities has paid well this
year.
The Charleston News and Courier
urges that the South should manu-
facture every pound of cotton grown
on its fields, and thus derive the whole
profit from its principal agricultural
prod uct.
The best time to pillow under
clover sod is in the fall, and at least
ten bushels of lime per acre should be
broadoasted over it after blowing. By
fall blowing the sod is more easily
decomposed and becomes plant food,
while the cutworms will be destroyed
by the frost.
Pin worms in flower pots can be
gotten rid of by watering with lime
water, if the plants are of a kind unin-
jured by it. The worms dislike tobac-
co-water and strong soap-suds. If
these are not effectual, drown them
out by immersing the whole pot in a
tub of soap-suds, letting it remain
there forty-eight hours. Mrs. H. E.,
IN american Garden.
The West Tennessee Horticultural
Society will hold their sixth annual
meeting at the courthouse in jackson.
December s, 9 and TO- 1887 Eminent
speakers from different sections of the
country have been invited to be pres
ent and address the society on horti-
cultural and kindred topics.
Under an act of the last Legisla-
ture of Tennessee it is made the duty
of the county superintendent of schools
to set aside day to be known as Ar
Dor Day." when all the children shall.
under the direction of their teachers,
set out trees and generally beau;ify
the school grounds.
At a meeting of the farmers and
livestock men of Marshall County,
Tenn, at Lewisburg recently, it was
determined to hold fair next fall.
Committees were appointed and other
steps taken looking to permanent or
ganization the first Monday in Novem-
Der. No county could better sustain 8
first-class fair than Marshall
American apricot peach is the
| name given nv the Gardeners Moufh
IN to a new peach with al apricot
flavor and surprisingly small stone,
represented as no larger than the pit of
u plum. 1t is chance Seeding orig
mating with H. P Walkeu Summer
Vile S C., described as of a golden
apricot color, rich red shading toward
the sun. The stone is free and the
flesh sweet; size medium
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
HAHHA 7
III Ais
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Do you feel dun, languid, low-spirited, ilie-
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ing, tongue coated bitter or bad taste IN
mouth, irregular appetite, dizziness, frequenss
headaches, blurred eyesight, " floating specKs
before the eyes, nervous prostration or eA~
haustion, irritability of temper, hot nlishes'
alternating with chilly sensations, sharPi
biting, transient pains here and there. cold
feet, drowsiness after meals, wakefulnehs, OF
disturbed and unrefreshing sleep, consiaE,.
indescribable feeling OF dread, or OF impeho-
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Ii you have all, or any considerable number
of these symptoms, you are suffering from
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Bilious Dyspepsia, or Torpid Liver, associateu
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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
THE MALE FliRT,
what He Is, who He Il, and Hcw H
Makes His Conqueats.


The male firt is an individual not
confined to our own days, nor yet even
to our own century. From time inn
memorial this terrible yet fascinating
person has secured society just as the
pirates and buccaneers of old are said
to have secured the seas with their
powerful and irresistible charm. There
is a weird attraction about him, fear
full Joy at his approach, horrible and
unnatural delight at the bare mention
of his name. Like the vampire of Ger
man fairy lore, he subiugates the senses
and curdles the blood at one and tho
same time; he is delighted and yet
alarming, enticing and yet appall-
ing, all at once. The male flirt is
the terror of mothers and the detesta-
ton of the whole race of elderly
aunts and chaperones of all kinds. We
have all in turn been warned against
him, all cautioned to steel our hearts to
his advances and to barricade the por-
tails of our souls against his serpent
like depredations. Yet so contradic-
tious and so foolish is the nature OF
woman that there is not one of us.
young or old, who has not at some
time or another of our lives fallen a
willing victim to this seductively dan
gerous individual. The male fiirt is
made so neither by practice nor yc: by
education-be is born so; just as genius,
or cooking. or mathematics is born
with a man. so is flirting in its higher
branches, implanted within him by
nature. He is not often handsome
man, although he is invariably pleas
ant one, aud he is not, as a rule, popu-
lar among his fellow men. Fathers
and brothers eye him with suspicion as
something which they do not wholly
comprehend, while husbands turn cold
shoulders upon his Establishments, or
at best treat him with freezing
politeness. Men. in short, look upon
him sskance. and one and all unite
in running him down = but per-
haps. that's only BECAUSE they arr iesl-
GUS Of him.-i.oadoa Society.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-12-15
In Loves Harness.

Most women naturally look forward to
matrimony as their proper sphere in life,
but they should constantly bear in mind
that fair, rosy face, bright eyes, and a
healthy, well-developed form, are the best
passports to a happy marriage. All those
wasting disorders, weaknesses, dragging
down" sensations, and functional irregular
tiles peculiar to their sex, have an unfailing
specific in DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton, 1t is the only medicine for women,
sold by druggists, under positive guarantee
from the manufacturers, that it will give
satisfaction in every case, or money will be
refunded. This guarantee has been printed
on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully carried
out for many years.